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China and the Chinese

Read by David Barnes


Herbert Allen Giles


Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor…

The Red and the Black, Volume I

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Stendhal


Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…

The Little Tea Book

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Arthur Gray


After all, tea is the drink! Domestically and socially it is the beverage of the world. There may be those who will come forward with their …

The Revolt of the Angels

Read by Roger Melin


Anatole France


Anatole France, in his satirical and allegorical fashion, weaves a tale of fantasy which finds a mischievous guardian angel stealing books f…

Selected Short Stories

Read by Greg W.


Stephen Crane


At the time of his death at the age of 28, Stephen Crane had become an important figure in American literature. He was nearly forgotten, how…

The Argonautica

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Apollonius Rhodius


The story of how Jason and a group of famous heroes of Greece took to sea in the Argos has been told many times, before and after Apollonius…

The Red and the Black, Volume II

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Stendhal


Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…

Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

Read by Martin Geeson


Robert Louis Stevenson


“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal …

A Rogue's Life

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Wilkie Collins


"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens f…

Childhood (version 2)

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Leo Tolstoy


Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian l…

Nada the Lily

Read by Phil Benson


H. Rider Haggard


A classic tale of love and revenge set in the Zulu Kingdom of present-day KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. A work of fiction loosely woven aro…

El Anacronópete

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Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau and Enrique Gaspar Y Rimbau


"El Anacronópete" es la primera obra en la que aparece una "máquina del tiempo" en la Historia de la Liter…

Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan

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William Elliot Griffis


William Elliot Griffis born in Philadelphia in 1843, was an educator, author and Congregational minister. In 1870 he was invited to go to Ja…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 053

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Various


Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include History--Jocelyn de Brakelond's 13th…

A Son At The Front

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Edith Wharton


This is an overlooked novel by the author of House Of Mirth, Age Of Innocence, and more. She already became the first woman to win the Pulit…

The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and P…

Read by Ben Adams


Sherwood Anderson


“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…

The Train Dogs

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E. Pauline Johnson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Train Dogs by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 6th, 20…

Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars

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Lucan


Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…

The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys

Read by Chuck Williamson


Forrest Reid


The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys is Forrest Reid’s tender, bracingly tragic reflection on adolescence, pantheism, Platonism, and homoeroti…

The Ring and the Book - An Interpretation

Read by Algy Pug


Francis Bickford Hornbrooke


Francis Bickford Hornbrooke was an American Unitarian minister who in later years was recognized as an expert commentator on literature, in …

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